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D.R.ROBERTSON.

BICYCLE STAND.

No. 595,891. Patented Dec; 21. 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID R. ROBERTSON, OF KIRKOALDY, SCOTLAND.

BIOYC L E-STAN D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,891, dated December 21, 1897.

Application filed March 20, 1897.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, DAVID RAITT ROBERT- SON, machine-maker, a subject of the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Port Brae Machine Works, Kirkcaldy, in the county of Fife, Scotland, have invented a new and Improved Automatic Bicycle-Stand, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved automatic bicycle-stand adapted to support a bicycle either in its normal upright position or in its inverted or upside-down position.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specificatiom'Figure I is an elevation of my improved stand. Fig. II is a plan of the same in proper position for the rolling on of the wheel of the cycle to be supported in upright position. Fig. III is an elevation of the stand, showing the wheel supported thereby. Fig. IV is an elevation of the stand, showing a cycle held by the stand in an inverted position; and Figs. V, VI, and VII are detail views.

The stand consists of a cast-iron base-frame A, having supports or feet a, the said baseframe being provided with pivoted loop-levers Bfwhich are hinged to snugs '0, formed on the frame A, thesaid levers being so shaped as to allow the wheel of the cycle to be rolled thereon when in the position of Fig. land the wheel held secure when the levers are tipped up, as shown in Fig. III.

For the purpose of holding the cycle inverted I provide each of the ends of'the pair of feet a, which are at the one end of the machine, with upright forked pins D, the forks receiving the handle-bar of the cycle when the machine is inverted. The said forked pins are made to swivel, (see Fig. VI, an elevation, and Fig. VII, a plan,) so as to adjust themselves to any curvature of handle. The said forks are lined with rubber or any soft material to prevent the handle being scratched or damaged when the cycleis thus inverted.

Serial No. 628,388- (No model.)

The V-shaped lever pivoted at that end of the .stand does not come into use when the bicycle ily mounted on the stand and firmly held.

I mount the forked'pins D, which hold the handle-bar, as wide apart as the stand will allow-that is to say, each forked pin is at the extremity of the feet a of the stand.

In the case of a ladys cycle, for example, orin any other case in which the saddle is at a lower level than the handle-bar of the bicycle, I raise the pivoted lever B, which carries the saddle, to its highest position, and I lock this lever B in this position by means of a pin E, (see plan view, Fig. V,) which is passed through holes ein the snugs or brackets O, the pin being preferably held by means of a chain e. This said arrangement of looking the one lever in an upright position may also be used when the stand holds the cycle in its ordinary position, in which case the cycle-wheel is run into the stand by means of the other V-shaped lever only, the locked lever at the other end of the machine acting as a fixed recess for the one side of the wheel to rest against,'the other or free lever remaining in its upright position by virtue of the weight of the wheel.

Having thus described my invention, the

following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The improved automatic bicycle-stand, comprising the base-frame A, the pivoted supporting-levers B, swiveled forked pins D, and lever-locking pin E, all for the purpose of supporting a bicycle in either its normal upright position or in its inverted position.

DAVID R. ROBERTSON.

Witnessesi THOMAS KERR, JOHN McTEAT. 

